Maternity Pics

My good friend Johnna just started her own photography business "Picturesque Memories" and she wanted some maternity pics for her portfolio and I was the lucky one who got to help her out :) She really did me a favor, I'd never gotten pictures like this taken before and was really excited about having them done, and I think they turned out great! She's a great photographer! Here are some of my favorites, these are the last pictures I have of me pregnant with Gracie, I think they were done a couple weeks before I went into labor.

Exploring the pee-pee :)

He has been sticking his hand down his diaper lately SO MUCH. This is right when he started doing that and I thought, "ok - maybe you just want a new diaper" so I started to change him and as soon as I got the diaper off he sat up and started playing :) and just kept whispering "pee-pee" to himself over and over and laughing :) then he got up, started walking around and kept looking down at it to make sure it was still there. Then he'd go sit on a chair and look down and say "pee-pee chair" and then he sat on his bike, "pee-pee bike". After a while I figured I should probably put his diaper back on and man he put up a fight! After I got it on, he stood up really fast and starting crying and crying when he couldn't see it anymore - I just ruined all the fun! :) I have a really cute video of all of it but I think there's too much pee-pee showing to post it :) What's that saying? "... where the sun don't shine!"

Random again

Here's just some of my favorite pics from January. I think I must have complained to Kevin that I always have the camera and there are no pictures of me with my baby boy :) so here's one :) Doesn't he look like a little dinosaur T-rex in this? This is his "tickle tickle" walk :) With his cousins that he loves so much! My pretty puppies - I promise I didn't just beat Carmel, doesn't he look so sad? He sure has that face down pat! Playing with stickers. Lovin' Uncle Rick, he sure took to him right away! Fun in the bath.

Big Boy Room

We decided we're going to move Bradley's room down the hallway to the spare bedroom when Gracie is ready to go into the nursery, so we painted, removed furniture, bought some cheap dressers from our neighbor and found a toddler bed on craigslist.As of now he is still in the nursery for another month or so until we decide to tackle the big boy bed. He moved from the bassinet in our room to the crib when he was about 7 months old which is what I'm expecting us to do with Gracie as well, so I figure that gives me a couple more months to start the switch, since I don't want to do it at the same time and make Bradley feel like she's stealing his bed :) So as of now, the room stays empty and he goes in there and plays. We set up the nice new tent that Tammy and Craig got him for Christmas and put all the ball pit balls in there and he loves to go in there and play.

My big baby

As soon as we started getting all the old baby stuff back Bradley ran to it like he'd been looking for it for months. Even now that I write this and Gracie's almost 2 months old, he still likes to take turns in the swing and bouncy seat, he is SO good at sharing! :)

Playing Games

I think we played games almost every single night that Uncle Rick was here - I love it! I could never get tired of playing games with family and friends, I think it's my all time favorite thing to do. Here is Bradley and his Sis Sis is not who you're thinking it is :) For some unknown reason, Bradley calls Drew "Sis" :) It started out as Sissy and changed to Sis for short. He CAN say Drew when you ask him to say it really slow, but he calls him Sis and is always asking for "Katie and Sis". Here was Bradley mid getting ready for bed - hence the naked-ness :)

Balls!

Tammy and Craig got Bradley lots of ball pit balls for Christmas and he just loves them. Kevin had the good idea to put them all in his crib and he ran back and forth forever! Simple pleasures :)